It’s been an exciting couple of months for Disruptive Innovation (for a quick overview, watch this 8-minute HBR video), the term Clayton Christensen coined in the 1990s and made prominent with his 1997 classic The Innovator’s Dilemma.
It started with Jill Lepore’s article The Disruption Machine: What the Gospel of Innovation Gets Wrong in The New Yorker in which she criticizes Christensen on a variety of points. This, in turn, prompted a flurry of articles – mostly coming to the defense of the theory and Christensen – over the next several weeks, along with an interesting Innochat on the topic.
In case your summer activities have prevented you from staying abreast with the controversy, below are some of the recently published articles: